ITS TIME FOR ANOTHER GUITAR DUEL VOTE BEACH PARTY!
After a couple of false starts, we asked duellists Frosty2jr and C-Grin to lay down some tradstyle surf to help inspire
the rest of us and extend the summer with a beach party blowout we won't soon forget
Surf music (also known as
surf rock,
surf pop, or
surf guitar) is a
genre of
rock music associated with
surf culture, particularly as found in
Southern California. It was especially popular from 1958 to 1964 in two major forms.
[7] The first is
instrumental surf, distinguished by
reverb-heavy
electric guitars played to evoke the sound of crashing waves, largely pioneered by
Dick Dale and the Del-Tones. The second is
vocal surf, which took elements of the original surf sound and added
vocal harmonies, a movement led by
the Beach Boys.
Dick Dale developed the surf sound from
instrumental rock, where he added
Middle Eastern and
Mexican influences, a
spring reverb, and rapid alternate
picking characteristics. His regional hit "
Let's Go Trippin'", in 1961, launched the surf music craze, inspiring many others to take up the approach.
The genre reached national exposure when it was represented by
vocal groups such as the Beach Boys and
Jan and Dean Dale was quoted on such groups: "They were surfing sounds [with] surfing lyrics. In other words, the music wasn't surfing music. The words made them surfing songs. ... That was the difference ... the real surfing music is instrumental."
Here's what our two competitors brought us...
Frosty
C-grin
One vote each, 24 hours. Winner gets 12 points, un-winner gets six
To vote GO HERE!
Any TTR Member is welcome to lay a surf track down for this contest for a point. Actually I take that back. Not true.
Two potential duellists were found unable to pick up the gauntlet when challenged for this duel, members
@Oldiemurphy and
@Clockworkmike . They can still make the music but are ineligible to gain any points for this duel,
or any other for the remainder of the first RiffMasters series, but only this round and round ten remain.